Thesium oresigenum Compton

A small densely leafy glabrous subglaucous shrub with numerous erecto-patent branches on which the old leaf-bases are prominent. Leaves patent or erecto-patent, slightly inflexed, linear, subterete, slightly flattened above, subsucculent, 8-12 mm long, 0.8-1.0 mm wide, the margins entire, the vein not prominent, the tip dark-apiculate. Flowers numerous in axillary bracteate clusters shorter than the subtending leaves. Bracts and bracteoles leaflike, subsucculent, the latter 2.0-2.5 mm long. Pedicel short, lengthening a little in fruit. Perianth segments deltoid, 0.9 mm long, without fringe, beard or papillae, shortly and acutely cucullate. Disc 1.0 mm in diameter. Anthers 0.25 mm long, attached to the perianth by a few hairs which are inserted near the base of the filament and are parallel with it. Style 0.5 mm long. Stigma not broader than the style, obtusely sublobate. Fruit spherical, lightly wrinkled, 1.5 mm in diameter.